Deploy check: does your video model id and duration exist on Sume?

The cheapest guard against a leftover sora-2 in your config is a preflight that reads GET /v1/videos/models and compares your VIDEO_MODEL and VIDEO_DURATION against the catalog before the deploy goes out. A model id that is not in the catalog, and is not sume/auto, comes back as 404 model_not_found at submit time, and a duration outside the model's supported_durations is rejected by Sume's catalog-driven checks.

OpenAI's deprecations page, read 2026-10-08, lists sora-2, sora-2-pro and their dated snapshots as removed on September 24, 2026, so the old values should never pass this check.

What the catalog row tells you

Each row of the response is a VideoModel. The fields below are the ones a preflight can use; the rest describe pricing and passthrough parameters.

The preflight

Run it in CI or as a pre-start step with SUME_API_KEY set. It exits non-zero with the catalog ids so the fix is obvious. sume/auto is accepted without a lookup, since Sume picks the model.

import json, os, urllib.request

def main():
    req = urllib.request.Request(
        "https://api.sume.com/v1/videos/models",
        headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["SUME_API_KEY"]})
    models = {m["id"]: m for m in json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(req))["data"]}
    wanted = os.environ.get("VIDEO_MODEL", "sume/auto")
    seconds = int(os.environ.get("VIDEO_DURATION", "8"))
    if wanted == "sume/auto":
        print("sume/auto: Sume picks the model")
        return
    model = models.get(wanted)
    if model is None:
        raise SystemExit(wanted + " is not in the catalog: " + ", ".join(sorted(models)))
    if seconds not in model["supported_durations"]:
        raise SystemExit("duration %d not supported; use one of %s"
                         % (seconds, model["supported_durations"]))
    print("ok", wanted, seconds)

main()

Limits of the check

The catalog can change between your deploy and a later request, and one id, higgsfield-genjutsu, appears only when its provider is configured, so do not hard-code the id list. Treat a failed preflight as a stop, and a passed one as a hint, not a guarantee; keep the 404 and 400 branches in your request code too.

The post on choosing a model by clip length covers the choice itself, and the retired id list covers finding the old values.